An important skill for Critical Reading is to recognize the pattern of cause and effect.

This can help in making predictions of what will happen later in a text and making inferences as to what has already happened in a text.

If you are familiar with the pattern of cause and effect, you can recognize it while reading and understand the text more easily.

Understanding relationships while reading aids in predicting what will come later or inferring what has happened before.

CLICK on the following music video (with audio) to see an example of cause and effect.

What were some of the different causes and effects you observed?

What caused what to happen?

How did these related events give the video structure?

CLICK on the following video (with audio) to see how cause and effect helps the critical reading (viewing) of this video.

How do you recognize the structure of cause and effect?

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